Veto of California's Condoms in Prisons Bill: "Politics Over Public Health,"... ( AB 1334 (Swanson D Oakland) Spons...)

Veto of California's Condoms in Prisons Bill: "Politics Over Public Health," Says AHF

Date:10/15/2007

AB 1334, (Swanson, D, Oakland), Sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), and the Southern California HIV/AIDS Coalition (SCHAC) Could Have Helped Reduce Spread of HIV and Other STDs Among California Inmates

Governor Instructs Department of Corrections to Implement Pilot Condom Distribution Program in California; AHF Notes Successful Programs in Jails in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia and Washington Already Show Law Could Work Without Threatening Safety and Security

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AB 1334 (Swanson, D-Oakland), The Inmate and Community Public Health & Safety Act, bill that would allow the state of California to permit nonprofit healthcare agencies permission to distribute 'sexual barrier protection devices' (such as condoms and dental dams) to be distributed in California prisons in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among inmates, was vetoed last evening by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the Governor's office promising to instruct the Department of Corrections to implement a smaller pilot condom distribution program as an alternative. The bill, which was sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and the Southern California HIV/AIDS Coalition (SCHAC), and was authored and carried by Assemblyman Sandre Swanson. AB 1334 would have allowed the state's Department of Corrections to, "...require the director to allow any nonprofit or health care agency to distribute sexual barrier protection devices such as condoms or dental dams to inmates, as specified. The bill would also have established, "...that the distribution of those devices is not a crime nor shall it be deemed to encourage sexual acts between inmates," and that, "...possession of those devices cannot be used as evidence of illegal activity for purposes of administrative sanctions ..."

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